Tata Teleservices Ltd has moved the Supreme Court seeking review of the judgement cancelling its licences for the 2G spectrum in three circles which were alloted during the tenure of former telecom minister A Raja. The petition seeking rev
Auditors can play an important role in helping countries deal with economic crisis by suggesting mid-course corrections, Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India Vinod Rai said here on Wednesday. "These are momentous times in th
Government is yet to take a call on former ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair`s request to the PMO to order an inquiry into the reasons behind annulment of the controversial Antrix-Devas deal and the procedure followed. Asked about Nair`s lette
Seeking to end the logjam on NCTC, the Home Ministry has convened a meeting of top police and civil officers of all states on March 9 to allay apprehensions of the counter-terror body usurping their powers. Union Home Secretary R K Singh h
The central bureau of investigation is set to question former communications and IT minister Dayanidhi Maran again in connection with the 2G spectrum allocation scam, CBI source said. The questioning, with respect to the Maxis-Aircel deal,
Two accused, including a city-based architect who allegedly orderd hit on RTI activist Shehla Masood, will be produced in a designated CBI court of Indore on Wednesday. The CBI arrested interior designer Zahida Parvez on Tuesday while iden
A teenaged deaf and dumb patient whose family complained that their daughter had been raped at the Bankura Sammilani Medical College Hospital was on Wednesday taken to Kolkata by police and Health department doctors for forensic tests, police said
Senior BJP leader Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday said here that the Prime Minister will have to engage in a lot of explaining for the failure of his government on several fronts, during his election campaign in Goa ahead of the State Assembly polls o
Beleaguered Kingfisher Airlines cannot be closed down just because it is making losses and banks are not helping it out with funds, Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh said on Wednesday. "You can`t close down a company because they are
The DMK, a key constituent of the ruling UPA at the Centre, on Wednesday said India should not support Sri Lanka, which is facing war crime charges, in the hearings being conducted by the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. &quo
The BJP has demanded that the centre come out with a `white paper` on the issue of non-governmental orgaganisations getting foreign funds and "working against public interest." Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had indicated that som
The Gini coefficient, an index to measure wealth disparity in a society (developed by Italian statistician and sociologist Corrado Gini in 1912), shows that the gap between the rich and the poor has narrowed faster in Uttar Pradesh than any other
As many as 395 sonography centres in Maharashtra have been sealed and 95 Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) centres de-recognised as part of state government`s drive, sources said. The drive is aimed at curbing the female foeticide by
In a major operation, Delhi Police has arrested two suspected LeT terrorists who were allegedly planning to carry out terror strikes in the capital targeting vital installations and VVIPs. Delhi Police sources said the operation was launch
The government is looking at introducing ‘clean’ technologies in coal mining. Underground coal gasification, coal to liquid and other technologies are being promoted under the aegis of the union coal ministry. These efforts to en
Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal faced protests as he decided to leave for Goa without casting his vote in UP polls and the "guilty" activist returned from airport but in an anti-climax could not exercise his franchise as his name was mi
The Kisan credit card would be made available to deserving farmers from March 1-17 in the district, an official said today. Bank of India has been authorised to make the credit cards in special camps to be organised in all 19 rural and sem
The police have registered an FIR against senior Congress leader Kripashankar Singh under anti-corruption law in connection with a disproportionate assets case, nearly a week after the Bombay High Court had directed it to prosecute him for "c
The CBI has arrested three persons, including a woman-architect and the alleged contract killer, in connection with the murder of Madhya Pradesh`s RTI activist Shehla Masood here and claimed to have cracked the case. Architect Zahida Parve
Planning commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia may blush that he was clocking expenses of Rs 2.02 lakh a day on his official foreign trips last year when his organisation filed an affidavit in the supreme court setting the poverty line
